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Dutch Republic

Union of the northern Dutch provinces, from 1581 to 1795.

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Arrival of exiles from Portugal in Amsterdam left the status of Jews to each city in 1619; Amsterdam’s 1632 regulation denied them the full rights of burghers Scholarship & press 1 2

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Evasion as a Legal Tactic: The 1616 Amsterdam Regulations Concerning the Jews, by Miriam Bodian, Early Modern Workshop, Fordham University and the University of Pennsylvania, 2008. Scholarship & press
They were never officially denied (or granted) freedom of worship.
Since the States, or governing body, of the province of Holland decided in 1619 to leave the responsibility for determining the status of the Jews in the hands of the municipalities, the 1616 document oddly became the definitive statement
It was amended only by an (admittedly significant) regulation of 1632 that denied Amsterdam’s Jews the full rights of burghers.
the resolution of 1612, issued under pressure from the Calvinist clergy, not only called for modesty, but prohibited the construction and use of a synagogue.
Amsterdam (The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906), The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906. Scholarship & press
a city ordinance, dated November 8, 1616, prohibited them from speaking publicly against the Christian religion or publishing anything against it, and forbade them to intermarry with Christians

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